US5199029A - Circuit arrangement for establishing conference connections - Google Patents

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US5199029A
US5199029A US07/618,275 US61827590A US5199029A US 5199029 A US5199029 A US 5199029A US 61827590 A US61827590 A US 61827590A US 5199029 A US5199029 A US 5199029A
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  • the invention relates to a circuit arrangement for establishing conference connections comprising conference units linked to form a loop, and wherein:
  • a sum codeword is formed from sample values of the signals of all the participants in a conference
  • each conference unit comprises means by which the sum codeword is updated by the use of the actual sample value and by which a conference signal for the allocated conference is formed from the sum codeword.
  • an interface circuit controls the conference signal input and output by means of write and read commands by which each of the programmed processors is actuated;
  • one of the processors writes each sum codeword that has been updated into an input memory of the next processor which reads the word from this memory as required;
  • each updated sum codeword is transformed into a test word and, at a later instant, the contents of the input memory of the next processor are overwritten by the test word whereby the next processor reads the test word from this memory, compares the sum codeword previously contained in this memory to the test word and produces an alarm signal, if necessary;
  • successive processors perform the program items of updating the sum codeword and comparing the sum codeword to the test word in a time offset order.
  • the processors used may be free programmable or mask programmable processors.
  • the input memories ES1 to ES4 of the processors P1 to P4 are arranged as serial-to-parallel converters.
  • the processors may write the sum codewords or test words already in the form in which the words will be processed by them and, consequently, calculating time will be saved.
  • all processors are to be provided with parallel-to-serial converters AS1 to AS4 as output memories.
  • a processor already containing these two memories as integrated components is the DSP 56001.
  • FIG. 1 shows a basic diagram of an arrangement according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a diagram for programming the processors in an arrangement according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a loop L in which four programmable processors P1, P2, P3 and P4 are arranged having each a dedicated serial-to-parallel converter as an input memory ES1, ES2, ES3 and ES4 and a dedicated parallel-to-serial converter as an output memory AS1, AS2, AS3 and AS4.
  • the processors P1 to P4 in question are free programmable processors of the type DSP 56001 which comprise the memories ES1 to ES4 and AS1 to AS4 as integrated components; each of them processing exactly two conference signals.
  • the processors P1 and P4 are connected to an interface circuit--in this case an interface processor P0--which receives the conference signals over a line Lan as multiplex signals and again transmits the conference signals as multiplex signals to the individual conferees over a line Lab.
  • the interface processor P0 acts, for example, as a demultiplexer distributing the data of the conferees over the bus B to the individual processors P1, P2, P3 and P4 so that all processors receive the conference bits simultaneously.
  • the signals of the individual participants are encoded into the DCDM code and have a 32 kbit/s bit rate.
  • the individual processors first transcode the conference signals into (linearly quantized) PCM signals.
  • the codewords--in this case a 1-bit codeword is concerned--of all eight conference signals simultaneously arrive at the inputs of the processors P1, P2, P3 and P4.
  • the arrival of every fourth conference bit at the same time synchronizes in all processors the performance of a sequence of sub-tasks.
  • Individual operational sequences of the processors are not in synchronism.
  • the common starting points of the processors will be referenced synchronization instants in the following.
  • processor P1 essentially is to carry out the following coarsely structured sub-tasks within a sampling interval of the PCM codewords (125 ⁇ s):
  • test word in the present example an inverted sum codeword
  • the loop time consists of the time for transmitting a signal from one processor to the next and of the dwell time in the processor. Because of the long transmit time (serial transmission) the dwell time is to be kept as short as possible so that the sum provides the necessary loop time.
  • the shortest possible loop time may be achieved by changing the order in time of the program modules, with an even more refined subdivision of the sub-tasks.
  • FIG. 2 symbolically shows the programs PP1 to PP4 of the processors P1 to P4.
  • Two sum codewords which travel through the loop of processors and are updated in each of the processors i.e. the sample values of the previous travel are replaced by the current sample values of the two conference signals applied to a processor.
  • Each sum codeword corresponds to a conference at which each conferee out of the total of eight conferees may be a participant in neither one or both conferences.
  • the program modules which process a sum codeword are referenced S in FIG. 2 and the modules making a comparison between a sum codeword and the associated test word--for example an inverted codeword--are referenced P. All further program modules are referenced by an X.
  • this processor After a program module X in program PP1 of processor P1 has been terminated, this processor starts with the program module S and for this purpose writes a sum codeword C8 of the first conference K1 from its input memory ES1 into its working memory. This operation is denoted by means of the first bold-type arrow in the left top corner of FIG. 2. The number following the letter C of the sum codeword denotes the conference participant whose signal was the last to update the sum codeword. The sum codeword C8 updated by the top program module S of the program PP1 is therefore written into the input memory ES2 of the processor P2 as a sum codeword C2, because the processor P1 was the last to update the sum codeword of the conference K1 by means of the signal of the second conference participant.
  • the processor P2 in its turn reads the sum codeword C2 at the beginning of its program module S from its input memory ES2 and forms it into the sum codeword C4 and so on.
  • the length of the program module X of the program PP2 from the synchronisation instant to the entry of the sum codeword C2 of the first conference K1 is determined such that the processor P1 has definitely generated and transferred the codeword C2 provided that the operation is performed error-free. The same holds for the pairs of the processors P2, P3 and P4.
  • the order of all bold-type arrows from left top corner to right bottom corner in FIG. 2 depicts a graphical representation of a travel of the sum codeword of the first conference K1 through loop L.
  • the sum codeword remains stored in memory ES1 until it is read out from there after the program PP1 is re-started.
  • the test word W8 as shown by the second arrow in the left top corner of the program PP1 follows the sum codeword C8 of the conference K1.
  • the processor P1 Once it has been written into the processor P1, it is compared by the program module P to the codeword C8 stored in an internal memory of the processor, that is to say, the test word W8 is inverted and its identity is verified by means of sum codeword C8. If there is no match, the processor P1 transmits an alarm signal to the processor P0.
  • the codeword C2 of conference K1 will then be inverted bit-by-bit and written into the memory ES2 of the processor P2 as a test word W2.
  • the same operation as in processor P1 is performed but in a time-delayed manner. Also with the sum codewords and test words of conference K2 all calculation steps are performed in analogy with those of conference K1.
  • FIG. 2 shows that for the described transmission of the sum codewords and test words no more than two different program variants are necessary. When this is effected, successive processors in the loop of processors are to be loaded each with different variants of this program.

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